Abu Rashid al-Qurayshi

Abu Rashid al-Qurayshi (2 January 1984-25 January 2016) was an al-Nusra Front leader during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Abu Rashid al-Qurayshi was born on 2 January 1984 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. He was sympathetic to al-Qaeda and traveled to Iraq to fight alongside them in 2005, resisting the US Army alongside the Iraqi resistance. al-Qurayshi rose in al-Qaeda's ranks, and he planned suicide bombings and attacks against the Americans for several years during the Iraq War. With the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, al-Qurayshi became one of the leaders of the newly-formed al-Nusra Front, becoming a military commander on the front lines. On 25 January 2016, he was killed in a Syrian Air Force airstrike on Idlib.